After his problems with access to NHS services, John Fortune coined the acronym Nasty as opposed to Nice. Photograph: ITV/Rex

John Fortune visited Kidderminster to support my parliamentary election campaign in 2001. I shall never forget it. He spoke at a crowded meeting in the town hall about the problems he had recently had with access to NHS services. After referring to Nice (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) he told us about Nasty (Nothing Available So Treat Yourself). How apt at that time and how typical of the man and his humour.